Skeletal muscle is the type of muscle that controls movement. Problems with these muscles can be minor, life-threatening, or ongoing problems that make it hard to perform basic daily activities.

AUSTIN, Texas — Only recently have researchers begun to pay much attention to fascia, but the connective tissue may hold clues to a wide array of diseases including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ...

The collagen VI-related myopathies encompass a spectrum of disease ranging from severe Ullrich muscular dystrophy to mild Bethlem myopathy. These diseases are caused by mutations in the genes that ...

A muscle biopsy is a minor surgical procedure. Doctors order them to help diagnose certain diseases that involve muscles. During a muscle biopsy, a small piece of tissue is removed from a specific ...

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